Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
1-bit Bonsai 8B
~50
0/8 categoriesSarvam 105B
60
Winner · 3/8 categories1-bit Bonsai 8B· Sarvam 105B
Pick Sarvam 105B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Sarvam 105B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Sarvam 105B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 81.7 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MATH-500, 66% to 98.6%.
Sarvam 105B is the reasoning model in the pair, while 1-bit Bonsai 8B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Sarvam 105B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.
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| Benchmark | 1-bit Bonsai 8B | Sarvam 105B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| BrowseComp | — | 49.5% |
| Coding | ||
| LiveCodeBench v6 | — | 71.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 45% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Reasoning | ||
| MuSR | 50% | — |
| gpqaDiamond | — | 78.7% |
| hle | — | 11.2% |
| KnowledgeSarvam 105B wins | ||
| GPQA | 30% | — |
| MMLU | — | 90.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.7% |
| Instruction FollowingSarvam 105B wins | ||
| IFEval | 79.8% | 84.8% |
| Multilingual | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| MathematicsSarvam 105B wins | ||
| MATH-500 | 66% | 98.6% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 88.3% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 85.8% |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | — | 85.8% |
Sarvam 105B is ahead overall, 60 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MATH-500, where the scores are 66% and 98.6%.
Sarvam 105B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 30. 1-bit Bonsai 8B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Sarvam 105B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.3 versus 66. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Sarvam 105B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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